The Samaritans – A New Vision for Mental Health

Why I Can Never “Recover” Under NHS Mental Health Services

Author: Editorial 3rd September 2021 0 Comments

This post is from WrenAves’ Psychiatry Is Driving Me Mad blog. It begins by declaring a content warning: “Mention of self-harm, abusive relationships, assault, psychiatric abuse”, then continues: “I’ve been seeing a private therapist now for 6 months, and it’s been an absolute revelation. After 9…
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a coherent system

Clients & Patients, counselling, diagnostic labelling, NHS, personality disorder, psychiatry, The Samaritans, WrenAves

How do we prevent suicide? We must start with the most painful conversations

“Much of the coverage of Caroline Flack’s death has merely distanced us from the incredibly difficult reality. But we can do better.” Suzanne Moore, writing in The Guardian , says: “This is not a piece about Caroline Flack . We do not need to…
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